Artificial Intelligence Jobs

Hadean · London

Lead a new AI-powered defence product team, line-managing AI/ML, simulation, infrastructure and web engineers while staying hands-on in TypeScript, React and Node. You own delivery end-to-end, hiring and people development, partnering with Product and technical leads, with hybrid working one day a week in Shoreditch.

University of Essex · Ipswich · £40,000 – £45,000 pa

A KTP Associate role embedded at Distag QCS in Ipswich, working with a large, messy ERP dataset never designed for machine learning. The post holder shapes the data, builds reliable models, and leads the introduction of data-driven decision making in a business with no existing in-house data science capability. It blends hands-on Python development with change management, communication and academic paper contributions.

Experis · London · £600 – £644 pd

Builds production-grade GenAI and Agentic AI products within a product squad, using LLMs, RAG and agentic workflows. Requires strong Python engineering plus LangGraph, vector search, evaluation and Azure AI services to deliver secure, maintainable AI applications.

Sanderson · London · £550 – £700 pd

Builds, deploys and maintains machine learning models and end-to-end ML pipelines in a modern cloud environment, writing production-quality Python and SQL. Works with data scientists, analysts and engineers to take AI products from proof of concept to production, including NLP and large language model work, plus monitoring and documentation.

University of Sheffield · Sheffield · £39,560 – £43,099 pa

Postdoctoral role applying explainable NLP and machine learning to analyse online disinformation narratives, integrate findings into a user-facing verification toolkit, and evaluate commercial chatbots and AI-generated search overviews. The researcher joins the European-funded ANTIGONE project, collaborating with multidisciplinary partners and leading publication of results in high-impact journals and conferences.

Matchtech · Cambridgeshire · £450 – £650 pd

Contract Python developer role focused on building and maintaining software for integration with a defence cloud environment. Day-to-day work spans data and AI, automation and tooling, and DevOps, using Red Hat OpenShift, Quay, HashiCorp Vault, Tekton Pipelines, GitHub, ArgoCD and SonarQube within agile teams. Requires UK Eyes Only clearance eligibility and is based on-site/hybrid in Cambridgeshire.

University of Exeter · Exeter · £21,805 pa

Investigates whether small language models running on local workstations or on-premises servers can serve as reliable agents for bounded business workflows. The student will distil agentic capability from large teacher models via harness optimisation and fine-tuning on execution traces, measuring reliability, cost, latency and data locality, and releasing open tooling for UK SMEs.

The University of Manchester · Manchester · £48,337 – £59,390 pa

Develops and applies machine-learning and AI methods to protein engineering and enzyme design, analysing large biological, chemical and experimental datasets and building predictive models and computational tools. Works within an interdisciplinary group spanning the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and Department of Chemistry, providing ML and data-science expertise, training and support to postdocs and students, and contributing to publications and funding bids.

Queen's University Belfast · Belfast · £42,972 – £51,270 pa

Conducts research in hardware-accelerated custom computing within QUB's Centre for Secure Information Technology, contributing to the European RIGOLETTO initiative on an open RISC-V automotive hardware platform for software-defined vehicles. Involves FPGA design, CPU architecture work, and collaboration with academic and industrial partners.

Cranfield University · Bedford · £38,655 – £46,492 pa

Integrates four strands of AI research into a single flight-deck assistant and validates it with airline pilots in Cranfield's Future Systems Simulator. Builds the software platform and automated test framework for real-time operation, creates flight scenarios, runs simulator trials and publishes findings within an EU Horizon Europe project.

University of Hertfordshire · Hatfield · £39,560 – £46,970 pa

Postdoctoral role delivering research on innovative AI/ML algorithms for predictive modelling and optimisation of agricultural applications from heterogeneous data, as part of an Innovate UK-funded collaborative project. Involves developing AI/ML software tools, data management and analysis, supporting the Principal Investigator on project milestones, and contributing to publications and reports.

University of Exeter · Exeter · £21,805 pa

Develops a resource-aware AI framework for 2D and 3D medical imaging that adapts computation to case complexity, clinical risk and available hardware. Investigates where unnecessary computation occurs, builds a configurable model family, and validates it on population-scale abdominal MRI (UK Biobank) and near-patient dermatology imaging, with safety assessed across patient subgroups.

eFinancialCareers · London · £450 – £550 pd

Develops and maintains C# software and algorithms that process incoming news streams, turning financial and market data into accessible information for research and investment decisions. Also explores artificial intelligence to enhance information processing and contributes to the wider software infrastructure supporting Global Research services. Works alongside Python-based tooling within a consultancy team serving financial services clients.

King's College London · London · £45,031 – £52,514 pa

Designs, builds and evaluates AI-enabled evidence synthesis tools and pipelines for the METIUS programme, writing production-quality Python code and onboarding consortium partners. Runs methodological and evaluation studies on the reliability and usability of AI-assisted synthesis methods, publishing the results, and contributes to the Solace-AI project on climate-health emergencies. Works alongside software developers, data scientists and evidence synthesis specialists.

University of Oxford · Oxford · £39,424 – £47,779 pa

Develops novel statistical and machine learning methods for large-scale genomic, phenotypic and health data, covering areas such as genomic language models, multimodal and federated learning, and multi-ancestry methods. Builds scalable, reproducible research software applied to biobank-scale datasets, evaluates statistical and predictive performance, publishes findings and guides junior researchers in the Palamara Group.

University of Exeter · Exeter · £21,805 pa

Develop next-generation machine learning models to predict genetic interactions from large-scale perturb-seq data, evaluating graph neural networks and autoencoders for genome-wide scalability. The purely computational project feeds a lab-in-the-loop cycle with pancreatic cancer screens from the AstraZeneca and Cancer Research Horizons Functional Genomics Centre, with results released as open-source software.